Miss. man thought dead wakes in body bag

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LEXINGTON, Miss. — Workers at a Mississippi funeral home said they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

The Holmes County coroner, Dexter Howard, calls it a miracle that Walter Williams, 78, is alive. The coroner was called to Williams’s home in Lexington, where family members believed he had died. He said Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m.